date:Nov 15, 2012
uman intestinal cells) were used to examine absorption. The study showed that the cyclodextrin-curcumin complex dissolved five times more readily in the synthetic digestive fluid than commercially available curcumin nutritional supplements and pure curcumin extract. At the same time, absorption efficiency in human CaCo-2 cells increased by a factor of ten.
As this demonstrates, complexing compounds such as curcumin with cyclodextrins significantly improves the solubility of hydrophobic substanc